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Permutation Orbifolds and Chaos

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-01-17 v2

Abstract

We study out-of-time-ordered correlation functions in permutation orbifolds at large central charge. We show that they do not decay at late times for arbitrary choices of low-dimension operators, indicating that permutation orbifolds are non-chaotic theories. This is in agreement with the fact they are free discrete gauge theories and should be integrable rather than chaotic. We comment on the early-time behaviour of the correlators as well as the deformation to strong coupling.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1705.08451,
  title  = {Permutation Orbifolds and Chaos},
  author = {Alexandre Belin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.08451},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

15 pages, v2: more references and additional comments in the introduction

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